Keynote Speaker

Edward J. Zambraski Ph.D., FACSM

Division Chief, Military Performance Division
U.S. Army Institute of Environmental Medicine 

Edward Zambraski ’71, a SUNY Cortland Distinguished Young Alumnus Award winner in 1981, has been the division chief of the Military Performance Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, in Natick, Mass., since 2003.

Zambraski directs the activities of approximately 55 civilian and military personnel conducting research in the areas of performance physiology, injury epidemiology, biomechanics and cognitive performance.

With extensive research experience using both animal and human models, Zambraski has studied the changes in renal function in hypertension and cirrhosis and evaluating the effects of exercise on kidney function.

Zambraski serves on several editorial boards and has been a member of the National Institute of Health’s study sections and on various national research review panels. He also holds several leadership roles within the American Physiological Society and the American College of Sports Medicine.  

Previously a full professor of physiology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Zambraski served the institution from 1976-2003.

A physical education major with a minor in biology while at SUNY Cortland, Zambraski earned his doctorate from the University of Iowa, where he initiated studies on the urinary profiles and dehydration in wrestlers.